Hi, FWIW, the default with GnuPG 2.1 will be to launch the gpg-agent on demand. There won't be any need to start it in the xsession and it will automagically be restarted if needed. There is a 2.1. beta available and Marcus recently succeeded in building it for Mac OS. Salam-Shalom, Werner -- Die Gedanken sind frei. Ausnahmen regelt ein Bundesgesetz.